Ultra sound pictures! Boy or Girl? Names and more!

I got to have an ultra at just 2 days before i was 24 weeks along. It was fun, except for having to drink 32 oz. of water and holding it for an entire hour before my appointment and than the 40 min. it took to do the ultra sound! ouch :) It was really fun after i got to pee. After the tech took all the measurements she needed-which only took so long because the baby was moving allll over the place-maybe he/she had a full bladder too? ;) She brought josh and my mom in to just look for fun, and she turned the screen so i could see too! By that time the baby had turned over toward my back and went to sleep but she was able to get a few partial shots of the face. The tech was able to tell the gender...i told her from the beginning to try not to tell me b/c we didn't want to know....she refered to the baby as a "he" a few times and than switched to "it" so i kind of think it might be a boy, but i always call it a "he" too. She even caught me saying that and asked if i thought it was a boy and we both agreed that "he" just rolls off your tongue when you don't know the gender-so i really don't know?! Josh and i got a little wishy-washy and we had her write the gender on a piece of paper incase we end up wanting to know. She was so funny, she folded it about 30 times and taped all the edges! I decided i'm going to shred it. I would be ecstatic to know the gender now, but if it's a girl again i don't want to know-we would be thrilled with a girl, we love the name we have picked out and riley would have such a close sister. We don't need much for a girl, so we might as well wait-and if it's a boy, i just can't take away the emotion i would feel when they tell me right as i deliver! I've been leaning more towards wanting a girl lately for a few reasons but mostly because the name we picked "Reese". I think Riley and Reese would make great fisher sisters. And for the past few months josh and i had our top 3 boy names but none we absolutely completely 100% loved. They were 1. Kole 2. Troy 3. Porter. But i came up with the name Braden (sounding like Brayden-not sure how to spell it yet) and we both fell in love with it, so that is taking the #1 spot and knocking troy of the list i believe. we'll see. So now that we have a boy name that we are crazy about i'm okay with having a boy too :) (p.s.if you don't like any of the names we do, that fine with me, and i'm well aware there will be infinite HORRIBLE nicknames for each and every name, and that you might know someone with one of those names that you just can't stand, but we love them, so let us enjoy them please!)

Okay, so this head is giving me a few nightmares....and some pelvic pain already! A little big huh?!

The baby looking right at us, you can see his stomach and his hand-which happens to look like a foot-hopefully when the baby pops out it will resemble a hand!

Sleeping-the lips kept opening and closing, pretty neat to see

The day of the ultra sound the baby had it's head down toward my left hip and it's fit under my right ribs...it's fun to know what i'm feeling kind of! Oh and the baby has come up with a new schedule...6:15 every morning WE-yes we, get up to play! not to fond of that but it's better than 4am which it was for awhile! This baby is SO active and moves a TON, i love feeling it. I think i'm going to wear my sking off just from always having my hand somewhere on my tummy feeling the baby move!

Our bedroom is beginning to take shape! We've had our awesome bed and end tables etc since a few weeks after we moved in but we have yet to decorate the room...no frames or anything. The office i work at has these awesome lamps in a few rooms and i found them at ikea. Luckily josh loves them too. They look the best at night, they light up the room just enough and give off a great ambiance. They are like a papery material and have just two lightbulbs in each one...they stand probably around 5 ft. tall and i just LOVE em. Next come frames and all that...josh is making some great progress on the closet, i will post an update asap!

I couldn't get both lamps in the picture at once, but we each have one on our side of each of our night stands-bed unmade, but i could lie and say that is for the purpose of you seeing our "colors" brownish stain, blue walls and yes ORANGE accents baby :)

Riley and Pops writing father's day cards